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29% of the European Union adult population suffers from qualification mismatches

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Recent Cedefop research shows that 29% of the European Union adult population suffers from qualification mismatches, mostly as overqualification.

In the second in a series of articles on insights from the European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, Cedefop expert Konstantinos Pouliakas looks at ways of mitigating overqualification.

He notes that 'about a quarter of tertiary education graduates work in jobs below their qualification level; this is a waste of public resources and a taint on the value of further education.'

SCUTREA's November News

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Please see below for three pieces of information SCUTREA Council hopes you might be interested in:

1. Call for Expressions of Interest to the Special Issue 'Advancing Theory and Research in Widening Participation' to be published in Studies in Continuing Education.

Organised by Nalita James and Ellen Boeren, this call seeks expressions of interest in papers contributing to the following topics:

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